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荠

薺
qí / jì
noun #62,402

Meanings

  1. 1 water chestnut

Examples

HSK 6
荸荠又甜又脆，生吃很好。
Bíqí yòu tián yòu cuì, shēng chī hěn hǎo.
Water chestnuts are sweet and crunchy, good eaten raw.
HSK 7-9
妈妈在厨房削荸荠。
Māma zài chúfáng xiāo bíqí.
Mom is peeling water chestnuts in the kitchen.

Tips

usage
The 荠 reading is bound, it appears almost only in 荸荠, the water chestnut. For the spring wild green use the 荠 reading instead.

Components

radical
艹 cǎo
grass; plant
Top is the grass radical 艹, the side form of 草. It marks the character as a plant, here a leafy edible herb.
phonetic
齐 qí
even; together (phonetic)
Below is 齐, supplying the sound (kept in the qí reading; shifted to jì in 荠菜). The same phonetic appears in 济 and 剂.

Stroke Order

荠 qí